Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the remarkable ability to develop into various types of cells in the body. They serve as a repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important ...

A Las Vegas hospital has achieved a major milestone as staff celebrates the completion of its 100th stem cell transplant. The ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia developed a reliable method to produce helper T cells from stem cells by precisely tuning Notch signaling, enabling scalable, off-the-shelf immune ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...